‘A terrible blot on American civilization’ (2)

‘A terrible blot on American civilization’ (2) – 1922

The backside of a broadside prepared by the Committee on Public Affairs of the Inter-Fraternal Council and issued by the District of Columbia Anti-Lynching Committee of the Northeastern Federation of Colored Women depicts the 1922 Silent March on Washington, D.C. and an illustration of Black people voting against those who defeated the anti-lynching bill.

The front side of the4 flyer cites 3,424 lynchings in the previous 33 years and lists the congressional representatives who voted against the Dyer anti-lynching bill in 1922.

Dyer was the sponsor of several anti-lynching bills through the years, but the 1922 bill came closest to passage when it cleared the House 231-119.

The first Black American political march in Washington, D.C. took place in 1922 when more than 5,000 silently marched through the city in support of the Dyer anti-lynching bill.

The bill ultimately died in the Senate where Democrats staged a filibuster.

A federal anti-lynching bill wasn’t passed until one hundred years later in 2022 when the Emmett Till Antilynching Act was signed into law.

The Northeastern Federation of Colored Women was the regional grouping of the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs. The Association was founded in 1896 and its first president was District of Columbia resident Mary Church Terrell. The organization continues to exist today.

For a PDF of this approximately 8 ½ x 11 flyer, two-sided flyer, see washingtonareaspark.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/1922-b...

For a blog post on the 1922 anti-lynching campaign, see washingtonareaspark.com/2013/02/06/before-1963-the-1922-s...

For additional images related to the anti-lynching campaign, see flic.kr/s/aHsjDTaACx

Original held in the Library of Congress, Broadsides--District of Columbia—Washington, Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 208, Folder 36.

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Taken on: March 23, 2024

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